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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Guidance
Pā to Plate Grower’s Guide
This beautifully illustrated booklet provides a brief grower’s guide from pā to plate. Beginning as a research project in 2016, Pā to Plate has evolved…
Summary
Beyond the Unicorn Eater: Social Approaches to Healthy Eating and Food Security in Aotearoa New Zealand
There are disparities in Aotearoa/New Zealand’s food production and distribution systems that result in food poverty in some cases, and food waste in others. Food…
Presentation
Rewarding Sustainable Practices: Introducing the Value Chain Compass
Researchers from the Agribusiness & Economic Research Unit (AERU) were asked by Our Land & Water to investigate the role of value chains in rewarding…
Model
Scenario design of New Zealand future agriculture
We have developed a simple decision-support tool that is the first to represent the whole agricultural system of New Zealand at the national scale. The…
Technical Report
Biological test of soil health using molecular techniques: Final report
During the feasibility stage of the project, we were able to identify suitable primers for the most common earthworms found within each earthworm ecological group…
Journal Article
The longevity of cultivation in decreasing the potential for phosphorus loss in runoff
Phosphorus (P) loss from highly fertilised grazed pastures can impair surface water quality. High P concentrations in grazed pastures are maintained to boost legume production,…
Video
The Tīmata Method: A low-cost way to retire farmland into native forest
Restoring erodible land in New Zealand into native forests can be a challenging and costly process, limiting private landowners’ participation in large-scale projects. However, there…
Journal Article
Quantifying the extent of anthropogenic eutrophication of lakes at a national scale
Quantifying environmental changes relative to ecosystem reference conditions (baseline or natural states) can inform assessment of anthropogenic impacts and the development of restoration targets. We…
Video
Bringing people together for diverse land use – webinar
In some catchments, diversification to mixed land uses will be a more pragmatic solution than applying all mitigations on all farms – especially where a…
Where are we conducting our research?
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